Understanding Lean Procurement within the SRM Portlet
You can increase the efficiency of your procurement process by forecasting your demand and creating supplier release schedules for specific items. You can use the SRM portlet to expose your supplier release schedule to the supplier so that the supplier can collaborate on the schedule and be prepared to meet your demand.
You can also process kanban items in conjunction with the SRM portlet to expose your kanbans to the supplier. You can include kanban items in your supplier release schedules or you can process kanbans outside of the supplier release schedule process.